5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

YEXED

YEXED is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 82.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /jɛkst/

Verb

simple past and past participle of yex

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How YEXED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YEXED as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.3% of games, misses completely in 34.7%, and leaves about 405 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,293 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Y___D Y in the 1st position and D in the 5th position Y__E_ Y in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

COAST SLART SAULT SOLAR ALURE SORAL
Words starting with Y Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.46 Entropy (bits)
405 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YEXED performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,293 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YEXED ranks #14,293 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
568
4 guesses
1,322
5 guesses
411
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
27%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

52 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

818
400
257
165
94
75
63
56
54
44
35
30
28
26
25
22
20
18
14
14
11
10
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YEXED:

35% chance
Suggested:
COAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

34.7% →
COAST 5.97 bits
17.0% →
SLART 5.61 bits
10.9% →
SAULT 4.76 bits
7.0% →
SOLAR 4.58 bits
4.0% →
SLART 4.86 bits
3.2% →
ALURE 4.46 bits
2.7% →
SORAL 3.92 bits
2.4% →
DROIT 4.90 bits
2.3% →
GRADE 4.23 bits
1.9% →
STEER 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for YEXED; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

Y4E1X8E1D2
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.